Cast-off.



No. 787,872. PATENTED APR. 18, 1905. C. BLOOMBERG.

CAST-OFF.

APPLICATION FILED D110. 15, 1904.

Patented April 18, 1905.

PATENT FFTCE.

(JASPER BLOOUBERG, OF NINV YORK, N. Y.

CAST-OFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,872, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed December 15,1904. Serial No. 236,935.

Be it known that I, Unseen BLoonnnnG, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful improvements in Cast-Offs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a cast-off for susponders; and it is an object of said invention to reinforce or increase the strength of those parts of said cast-off which receive the greatest amount of strain.

.It is a further objectof the invention to so construct said cast-off that one portion thereof may serve to take the strain or draft, while the other part, if desired, may be ornamented or otherwise constructed without the fear of the ornamentation impairing the utility of the device.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated on the accompanyingsheet of drawings, whercon Figure 1 illustrates a perspective view of a cast-off such embodies the principle of this invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, and Fig. is an elevational sectional view on line & sf of Fig. 2.

In said figures similar characters of reference apply.

As heretofore intimated, a cast-off of the character such as herein shown is subjected to a severe strain, particularly at two points that point which on the drawings is designated as 5 and over which when the cast-off is closed is located the buttonst-rap, (not shown,) and the other portion which also receives great strain is that designated on the drawings by 6 and which is passed over the chape 7 of a connecting-piece 5, through which the suspenderstrap (not shown) is passed. In order to reinforce that portion designated as 5 or which is commonly known as the gutter, there is provided a strip 9 of some tenacious material, which is so secured to the tab or strip 10 as to cause said tab 10 to buckle or curve outwardly and away from the strip 9 when the latter is stretched or drawn to a straight po sition. This feature is illustrated clearly in Fig. 1. In order that this same strap 9, which entire suspender structure.

serves as a reinforcement for the pocket or gutter 5, may also reinforce that portion 6 which passes over the chape 7, the said strip 9 is continued around, as at 11, with the material of the strip 10 in order that it may also inclose said chape, and in this way a reinforced bearing at that point is provided in a similar manner as the reinforced bearing is provided at the point \Vhile this inner strip 9 may be secured in place in any suitable manner, it may be preferable in practice to hold the same in place through the instrumentality of the fastening devices 12 and 13, respectively, by which the cast-off proper is held in closed position. It will now be observed that lv provide a structure peculiarly adapted to withstand the strain both at the point where the button-strap offers the greatest draft and also at the point where the material of the cast-off is held by the chape of the member to which the Suspender-strap is secured, that one of the fastening members serve to divide the strain member into two strain-receiving portions, and that therefore the liability of wearing at these two points of the outer member 10 is not only decreased to a minimum, but it has been found in practice that there is no wear on this outer member during the life of the 1 design that this inner strip 9 shall be of a length less than the strip 10, so that the extended portion 1% may retain its flexibility, which is of assistance in opening the buckle. ()ne of the features of this device is that the part of the locking member marked 12 on the drawings serves to divide the strain imparted to the member 9 into two independent portions that is to say, the one portion will be between the point 13 and the point 12 and the other will be from said point 12 back to the same point 12. It is also to be noted that this inner member 9 may be made of a far more tenacious material than the member 10 and that the member 10 may be ornamented either by stamping, pressing, perforating, or otherwise without fear of impairing its strength, inasmuch as it is apparent that practi -ally no strain is offered thereto.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim A cast-off comprising a single wear-resisting flexible strip, and an outer flexible strip, than that of the inner wear-resisting strip, a locking device securing the lower ends of causing a bulging of the outer strip when the the strips together, a ohape, the two upper strips are not folded. overlapped ends of the strips being looped Signed at Nos. 9 to 15 Murray street, New 5 through the chape, and a locking device se- York, N. Y., this 12th day of December, 1904. 5

curing the overlapped end s and strips to ether i s at the lapped part with the wear-re isting (JASPER BLOOMBERG' strip disposed in engagement with the ohape, Vitnesses:

that portion of the outer strip between the FRED. WV. BARNAOLO,

I said locking devices being of greater length C. A. WEED. 

